Vladimir Potanin Quotes
It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.
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Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.
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It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.
